Johann N. Neem is author of What’s the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform (2019) and Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (2017), which was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a professor of history at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Achieving the College Dream
Johann N. Neem reviews "Won’t Lose This Dream," a look at Georgia State University's program to graduate more students by Andrew Gumbel....

A Nation of Nations Must Still Be a Nation: On Nationalism, Globalization, and Writing History
Jill Lepore’s book argues for a shared national history, but fails to explain what that history looks like....
